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January 19, 2014

JAM panel news

was Paul Merton, Sheila Hancock, Josie Lawrence and Richard Herring.

I'm sure we
are all delighted to have Sheila and Josie back again, and Richard seems to
adore doing the show. He's tweeted though that Nicholas was poorly but continued on
- let's hope he makes a quick recovery!

Some bits from Richard Herring's twitter after the show, with contributions from fellow JAMmers Josie Lawrence and Rebecca Front...

Josie Lawrence: Great fun recording Just A Minute tonight.

Richard Herring: lovely to work with you. A huge fan of you (and everyone tonight). Thanks for being a great table mate!

Josie: A pleasure to sit next to you - you're smashing. x

Richard: Recorded 2 eps of Just A Minute tonight. Always terrified I will break it by being rubbish, but it's robust enough to cope! Paul Merton, Josie Lawrence, an extraordinarily witty Sheila Hancock and a poorly Nick Parsons who was a bloody trooper. I liked it when NP said shit, probably won't be on the radio, I said "special porridge", that might be. Best thing is the chat in the dressing room afterwards. Merton and Parsons chat about those they've worked with, comedy fanboy dream. This show is comedy history. Appearing on it every now and again is one of my absolutely favourite things about my job

Chem 2006: remember listening to it as a kid in my dad's car. Kenneth Williams...just a genius at it.

Richard: yup. He was my fave too.

Richard: Spoiler - still to manage a full minute. Doing well in one round tonight, but tripped at about 40 secs

Gary Percival: Do you practice beforehand or can you just do 'stream of consciousness'?

Richard: no real way to practise. Even if you knew subjects it wouldn't really help. Just got to launch in and hope for the best.

Fiona Plowman: when is it due to be broadcast?

Richard: Easter-ish I think

Anthony Cooke: the last time you were on I laughed so hard I nearly crashed on the M56.

Some pretty good players there! I've seen Chris Neill write that he has been dropped from the programme and I'll be slightly surprised if Tim Rice or Kit Hesketh-Harvey are on again. But I imagine the producers would love to have Ross Noble and Stephen Fry back, and I expect to hear Shappi again too.

panel news

The panel for the JAMs recorded earlier this week was Paul Merton, Tony
Hawks, Gyles Brandreth and Fi Glover. My friend Keith says Fi was overwhelmed as
she was last time she was on. Last time she was on with the high-powered team of
Paul, Sue Perkins and Stephen Fry, and this time it wasnt much éasier for
her.

For those like me who are stats nerds, it will be the first time in two and
a half years that Paul and Tony have been on a radio show together (they were
together on TV editions two years ago).